{"id":7792,"date":"2014-11-28T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2014-11-28T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T04:08:38","slug":"unc-finishes-tourney-with-win-over-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7792","title":{"rendered":"UNC finishes tourney with win over Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7793\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marcuspaige.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marcuspaige.jpg\" alt=\"UNC&#039;s Marcus Paige.\" width=\"184\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marcuspaige.jpg 184w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marcuspaige-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNC&#8217;s Marcus Paige.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina may have only finished fifth in the Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas but after losing to Butler in the first round, the Tar Heels defeated a pair of top 25 teams &#8211; first UCLA and now No. 18 Florida. (11\/28)<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels, who raced out to a commanding 12-0 lead in the first six minutes and led by 16 at the half, withstood a Gator rally that cut the margin to seven with two minutes to go in the 75-64 victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our defense was in tune,&#8221; UNC&#8217;s Marcus Paige said regarding the quick start. &#8220;And we transferred the intensity from the previous (UCLA) game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that while he was happy with the way the team played in the last two games, he said he was frustrated that the Heels needed to learn a lesson by losing to Butler in the first round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>All five starters scored in double figures for Carolina with Kennedy Meeks leading the way with 18 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Paige, who hit nine of 10 free throws, finished with 16 points while Austin Jackson, who had four steals, had 12 points including 8 while the Heels were surging out to a 25-8 lead.<\/p>\n<p>JP Tokoto and Brice Johnson each added 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb3media.com\/heelprints\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina may have only finished fifth in the Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas but after losing to Butler in the first round, the Tar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}